Mirco Schoenfeld will take up the professorship for "Interdisciplinary data management and knowledge generation" at University of Bayreuth on 1 September 2020. Until then, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bavarian School of Public Policy of Technical University in Munich. His research interests are focused on but not limited to context-awareness, data mining, social networks and network analysis.

He aims to understand and predict the influence of a network on the behaviour of single agents by developing techniques in network analysis, data science, and machine learning that enable the analysis of structural and contextual conditions of agents' embeddings.